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... understand human language , and to receive and communicate human thoughts . All this process of education takes place before the child is two years old . And a very great work it is to do it ; but God has in- sured its being done in ...
... understand human language , and to receive and communicate human thoughts . All this process of education takes place before the child is two years old . And a very great work it is to do it ; but God has in- sured its being done in ...
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... understanding so that you can grapple with more difficult questions ; and so we place before the mind , not the colours of a dress , but the numbers in the arithmetic , the problems in algebra , and the demonstra- tions in Euclid . You ...
... understanding so that you can grapple with more difficult questions ; and so we place before the mind , not the colours of a dress , but the numbers in the arithmetic , the problems in algebra , and the demonstra- tions in Euclid . You ...
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... understand that the mind is as much loftier than the body , that knowledge is as much better than wealth , as the heavens are superior to earth ? The only beings on earth worthy of being educated are our sons and our daughters . A horse ...
... understand that the mind is as much loftier than the body , that knowledge is as much better than wealth , as the heavens are superior to earth ? The only beings on earth worthy of being educated are our sons and our daughters . A horse ...
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... understand why you go away to school , and why those who love you most , thus place interests so dear out of their own hands . I have hoped too , that , if I could make you see the object for which you are sent away to school , you ...
... understand why you go away to school , and why those who love you most , thus place interests so dear out of their own hands . I have hoped too , that , if I could make you see the object for which you are sent away to school , you ...
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... with the new world in which you find yourself placed is attended with trials . But now , after you understand what is the object of being educated , and the reasons why you A CRITICAL POINT . 43 must go from home for.
... with the new world in which you find yourself placed is attended with trials . But now , after you understand what is the object of being educated , and the reasons why you A CRITICAL POINT . 43 must go from home for.
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Página 45 - Some high or humble enterprise of good Contemplate, till it shall possess thy mind, Become thy study, pastime, rest, and food, And kindle in thy heart a flame refined. Pray Heaven for firmness thy whole soul to bind To this thy purpose — to begin, pursue, With thoughts all fixed, and feelings purely kind ; Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all is ever due.
Página 88 - I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a...
Página 264 - Beyond all this, we may find another reason why God hath scattered up and down several degrees of pleasure and pain in all the things that environ and affect us, and blended them together in almost all that our thoughts and senses have to do with ; that we, finding imperfection, dissatisfaction, and want of complete happiness in all the enjoyments which the creatures can afford us, might be led to seek it in the enjoyment of Him " with whom there is fulness of joy, and at whose right hand are pleasures...
Página 44 - Do something — do it soon — with all thy might ; An angel's wing would droop if long at rest, And God himself, inactive, were no longer blessed.
Página 168 - make it otherwise. I write according to the thoughts I feel ; when I think upon God my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap, as it were, from my pen ; and since God has given me a cheerful heart, it will be pardoned me that I serve him with a cheerful spirit.
Página 252 - For my own part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts.
Página 149 - ... fingers, and were passed away like a shadow. What wonder then that I, who live in a day of so much greater refinement, when there is so much more to be wanted, and wished, and to be enjoyed, should feel myself now and then pinched in point of opportunity, and at some loss for leisure to fill four sides of a sheet like this? Thus, however, it is, and if the ancient gentlemen to whom I have referred, and their complaints of the disproportion of time to the occasions they had for it, will not serve...
Página 118 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 235 - I love you both," cried the inamorato — " I love you all five — I never was at Bristol — I will come on purpose to see you — what ! five women live happily together ! — I will come and see you — I have spent a happy evening — I am glad I came — God for ever bless you ; you live lives to shame duchesses.
Página 149 - ... through his fingers, and were passed away like a shadow. What wonder then that I, who live in a day of so much greater refinement, when there is so much more to be wanted, and wished, and to be enjoyed, should feel myself now and then pinched in point of opportunity, and at some loss for leisure to fill four sides of a sheet like this. Thus, however, it is ; and if the ancient gentlemen to whom I have referred, and their complaints of the disproportion of time to the occasions they had for it,...